Press Release/Ecobank Lome- Togo, February 4, 2014: Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (‘Ecobank’ or ‘the Group’) has been declared the most valuable brand in Africa – outside South Africa – in the annual ranking of the global banking and financial magazine ‘The Banker’ in its special edition Brand Finance Banking 500 of […]
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Financial Return Crowd-Funding will Bridge Banks Credit Gap-IOSCO
By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Wednesday said financial return crowd-funding will bridge credit gaps left by banks. This is contained in an IOSCO’s staff working paper entitled ‘’Crowd-funding: An Infant Industry Growing Fast’’ Other main benefits of FR crowd-funding include providing a boost […]
Oando secures funding for closure of ConocoPhillips acquisition
Toronto-listed Oando Energy Resources (OER), the upstream business of Oando Plc, said it had secured funding for the closure of the acquisition of the Nigerian upstream oil and gas business of United States-based group ConocoPhillips. The company, which is focused on oil and gas exploration in Nigeria, currently estimates that […]
